And there are no more good mom and pop & independent pizza joints ? Unbelievable
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There are also a few pizza chains in Germany, such as Domino's Pizza and Pizza Hut, but they don't really play a major role, and almost every small town has an independent pizzeria where you can usually enjoy good Italian food.
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Last night, I was invited to a burger restaurant. My meal, a large burger with chili cheese fries and a drink, cost 27 euros.
Honestly, you can get better food for that price.
Regarding the "Unbelievable" word and what I perceived you to mean which I am still not decided on because it would mean here that I am full of BS but to other people I am aware that it is a simple question. I am dead serious in saying the mom and pop pizza joints are not common like they where before and it's pretty much all major pizza chain operations seen now. The same occurred with independent grocers too. It's near all if not entirely all national and international pizza chains and the new style new format national and international grocery chains with huge expansive massive stores(One was using roller skating clerks inside the stores for price checks etc because the stores are humungous). They have huge expansive parking lots for cars and many times now they are built totally outside the housing/living areas at the intersections of 4 and 6 lanes major city roads that are very unfriendly to pedestrians and not easily accessible unless one has a vehicle. The entire make-up of the retail business plan and the customer experience is not even related to what was the Canadian standard before. The downtown inner cores of the large and small cities across Canada have been abandoned by the majority of the people because of the drug addled drug addicts, the homeless and the mentally ill that took over the inner city cores where the social supports agencies setup operations now and they made the inner cores the foundation of the entire issue and ruined the inner city cores. It's across Canada in all cities big and small. One city did a survey and ~48% of the remaining inner city business stated that when their lease runs out they will move out of the city core. Not making it up, not spin, not exaggeration etc when I say independent pizza joints are a faded memory. The entire societal operational manner has shifted to what we have now. I sat here at my desk multiple times before I boycotted all pizza deliveries and I was attempting to find an open and independent pizza joint and they are simply in very small numbers now. The few ones that did exist where spread far and wide and that made me not in their delivery area. It was hours of wasted time and energy. The web pages and phone book listings where often old closed businesses. I invested hours trying to find an independent pizza joint and it just never happened. That was using the Yellow Pages(Business telephone book directory.) and web searches too. Again the entire societal fabric, societal expectations structure and business plan operations is not even related to what we had before. Many old generational Canadians(Me @ 10th gen) and now even some immigrants too are joining in and are fed up with the major societal shifts and mass immigration. Everything changed in a short brief period of time and what we have now is not better than before and in some aspects it is far far worse and we receive less and have far less than before. The loss of the pizza independents is a symptom of all this.
I have never been to Germany or Europe for that matter but I am continually told and advised by people that Canada and Europe and Germany are very very different places with different societal stuff expected and occurring. I have a near daily chat friend in Germany of ~23 years and sometimes we find differences in some traditions, societal expectation(s) and reciprocations that is very different and we actually think the other a bit silly at times if not totally dumb. What we do and what Germany does sometimes is very far apart as I have been told and observed. Stuff occurs in Canada that would simply not be tolerated in Germany and stuff occurs in Germany that people here would not want. The prices of the various ethnic foods and the quality at the prices shown with all the cel tel images of the food orders/take outs etc simply makes Canada look food expensive, to have poor food selection and poor food service. My chat girlfriend in Germany tells me often that there are so many small food businesses and that simply does not occur here now after the business plan and societal shifts.
People in Canada and especially in my home city that has terrible extended winters go to shopping malls with huge food courts. I mean huge shopping malls. The major shopping mall in my city of ~1 million people is ~5.3 million square feet. The mall is the size of a small city and is accredited as a zoo, has ~800 retail stores and services including sixteen world-class attractions, two hotels, over 100 dining venues plus the food court with another 50 fast food venues, parking for more than 20,000 vehicles, >24,000 people are employed at the property, it attracts between 90,000 and 200,000 shoppers daily. The average yearly visitation is approximately 30.8 million people into the mall. I mentally and physically prepare to go to the mall. Everything is structured, organized, pre-planed and not random. I go because I need a specific item like shoes requiring fitting and only the mall has the store selling them. The mall for me is not a random wandering casual event. I map it all out the night before etc and confirm the business is at the exact location. I eat before, make sure I am energized because it is huge and requires a major effort to get to the mall, large distance walking within the malls, often in the big mall there is semi organized bidirectional and even mixed dense traffic flow that moves very slowly plodding through the humongous mall and to try and move/walk fast is a disaster and results in annoying other people and some people then actually intentionally place themselves in front of you if you move fast. It is best to just move slow. The mall requires mental preparation because some people are simply idiots and fools when in the expansive buildings and one must be ready for that and the absurdity of what they do. People go to the mall like it is an event, a pass time, a social location and they have no intention of buying and apparently don't even consider it is private property with rules and security to enforce all that. In brief they are often simply wankers hanging out at the mall being dumb and they are of all ages. Recently on various multiple dates gun shootings inside the big mall occurred due to gangs using the big mall. One must not get lost, plan ahead for stuff to confirm actual locations are as mapped at the website maps, confirm washroom locations and availability which at some malls are all now locked due to transients, unruly problematic teens and drug addled drug addicts causing issues and so one needs to pre-plan to ensure there are no major personal issues after the commute to the mall with the long walk across the parking lot and then all the walking inside the mall. The malls are basically ranging from a multi hours effort to half a day or all day and even more. I bought Merrell shoes at the big mall recently. That required 45 minutes of web searching the mall mapping/store research so I knew what mall side and exact door to use and mapped out the stuff, 45 minutes getting to the mall, 12 minutes walking to the entrance door, 10 minutes walking in the mall and then navigating inside the huge retail store and then getting back home for a total of ~284 minutes/4.73 hours for one pair of shoes. I was subject to the usual rubbish from the various garbage people and their various barrier issues directed at me and basically the experience sucked and no matter how I try to mind my personal matters and keep to myself the various garbage people find their way to dump garbage on me. I got my proper shoe size, bought one pair of the Merrell shoes and then upon returning home I ordered 3 more Merrell pairs of shoes from Amazon and avoided the mall. The malls are a specialized ecosystem and a different shopping biosphere affected by location, size, class of shoppers and the various groups and personalities attracted to each one. Germany apparently does it different.
Germans seem to have much higher expectations and elevated standards compared to Canadians/North Americans and some issues that I mentioned occurring here where simply considered as not even tolerable in Germany and simply don't exist. Then some of the reciprocal communications expectations and reactions simply don't even exist in German people that I have talked with on the phone, in person and in chat. I continually need to check myself when conversing with Germans because I can be offended by the blatant serious simple comments that would be considered here as base, offending and maybe even aggressive or not any of the other's personal business. That's just Germans being Germans and it's not personal, not intended to be harmful and they are simply saying stuff the way it really is and not mixing their words. Some stuff that people do in Canada and in North America does not even exist in the minds of Germans and vice versa. I see Canada and Germany as similar in areas but at the deep roots they are very different and when in close communications there are obvious things occurring that show the minds of the people are different and we do not think the same and that causes friction and nagging discomfort in ones mind at times. But I realize it is Germans being Germans and it's mostly not even being bad to me but they are straight shooters and some stuff that we do and expect/reciprocal expectations is simply irrational to Germans.
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